City Drug Agents Investigate Prescriptions Filed By Dentist

December 1, 2000

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- City public safety officers are investigating a 69-year-old dentist and his two daughters who are suspected of prescribing narcotic pain relievers for their own use. Dr. James E. Montgomery and his daughters Makayla O'Keefe, 28, and Marilee Robinson, 32, who both work as dental assistants, are accused of fraudulently getting prescriptions of hydrocodone. A five-month investigation found that Montgomery had prescribed 2,325 pills to patients, some of whom he had neither seen nor examined in more than a year. His daughters confessed to phoning in the prescriptions and using the drugs, officials said. Criminal charges are being reviewed by the State Attorney's Office.